Special Preview Anime.
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xyzzysqrlAnime time again! But with a special guest. Digimon Xros Wars episode 1, because I downloaded it and was curious. Will I want to watch it when the series is done? STAY TUNED!
Until right now! And click the thing!
Digimon Xros Wars 01
It is a dark and smokey night in... a world of dark, gas-masked digimon with glowing red eyes. Okay...
Our heroes walk out of the sun! Wearing goggles. Inevitably.
UNIWOLF. WOLFICORN. DRILL WOLFICORN!
Gattai! ...Holy fuck it's Tengen Toppa Digimon Lagann!
SWORD OF FLAMING V! V LASER! MAP ATTACK! FUCK ALL Y'ALL!
...and then a robot swordfought a dinosaur oh it's a dream.
Our hero seems let down too.
...okay, we're gonna have Goggles, Misty, and Brock!
And a pink robobunny. SQUEEEEE PINK ROBOBUNNY.
This show's gonna have a huge cast. Which is cool, because gattaing into flaming bunny swords and robots and stuff is AWESOME. More cast = More combinations.
"Episode one: Taiki goes to another world!" ...What'll happen, I wonder.
And we have... Akari? Whose mom is cooking everything in the trash can. *blink* *baffled*
Taiki plays basketball! He believes in the power of spinning really hard. And in the power of FAKEOUTS.
And then he runs out of energy. *flop*
Apparently our hero, get this, wears himself out helping people! I know! This is NEW TERRITORY.
"Anyway, with this it's CASE CLOSED!" ...no, that's Conan Edogawa's catch phrase.
Taiki can't remember the name of his ULTIMATE KENDO RIVAL, either. In spite of it being, like, Tsurugi, which I think is "sword".
He's BROCK, OKAY? He's BROCK now.
Our hero has a weird psychotic breakdown and starts talking to dragons only he can see and hear. ...maybe he just needs to drop his salt intake on these hot days.
...cars don't NATURALLY go through walls like that.
Will you people stop celphone-photographing everything?
o/~ Last night a dragon saved my life...
"Taiki?" "There's a patch of Noise over here, I gotta go."
Aww. Pink static dragon.
Brief sepia flashback of our hero afraid and alone! He won't leave anyone afraid and alone again! This is so SHONEN.
"AaaaaAAAAAAAAUGH BLINDING LIGHT." "Here, have an iPod."
"Don't take iPods from strangers, Taiki! The Internet taught me you can never click these banner ads and expect them to be real!"
...and the eyecatch lines up the hero digimon of like the last four seasons of Digimon. GET OUTTA HERE YOU GUYS. NEW HERO THIS SEASON.
"Taiki, is your ass talking to you?"
Ooooooh. SHINY robot digi-dragon. *big eyes*
...oh and a floating island. But SHINY.
...and a fucking WOOLY MAMOTH okay everybody OUT of the pastoral field.
"MadLeomon". Prefixes change everything.
Goodness, he's nineties looking.
Hey, it's a red and blue Alteisen digimon. "Ballistamon". Huh.
And a star digimon... and little derpy potatomon!
...Okay, so we have "Shoutmon" as the main hero digi. SHOUTYMON.
I think they're winning by the POWER OF ROCK right now.
OH NO DERPSTORM.
He has returned from the Dark World as RED SHOUTYMON.
MadLeomon with a CHAINSAW ARM.
This is all moving faster than I can type!
Yes, Taiki, run STRAIGHT AT the danger.
Digicross GATTAI. Shoutmon and Ballistamon combine to form GIANTFUCKYOUROBOTMON.
But Taiki keeps having to pump in more and more energy to fuel 'em.
FORM BLAZING SWORD. BISECT CHAINSAW LEOMON.
Big ol' smoking crater.
....and they broke a hole in the fabric of space/time. You little goggled bastards, STOP DOING THAT.
Oh, here's the enemies talking in shadow. They're like the bad guys from Trigun.
...Shoutymon, please stop grabbing Taiki's ass and proclaiming your undying love for him.
"Help me become KING of the Digital World!" "What's a Digital World?"
And then we pan back to reveal like THREE LAYERS of people standing on cliffs watching other people standing on cliffs watching other people... *crack up*
So Shoutymon's official power literally is the ability to ROCK THE FUCK OUT and melt your face off.
So... yeaaaaaah. For a first episode... WOW. This moved like HELL. I'm going to download these and stockpile them for later, when the season's done.
Dogtanian 01
And now back to reasonably sedate and slightly blurry children's programming from the eighties!
So this is based on The Three Musketeers, loosely. So expect a lot of swordplay, but do not expect Dogtanian to sleep with every single woman in France, as Dumas wrote. Because kids in 1981.
Also, this theme song is catchy and fun? But it goes on for like three solid minutes.
"The year was 1625 and the village was heavily shaded..."
Remember, cheating in a (wooden) swordfight is okay if you use the stuff your OPPONENT was cheating with.
Cam Clarke's voice was -really- nasal and high back then.
A musketeer from Paris!
"I'm here to see the nobleist man in all the village." Rival Kid: "Woo, my dad's got a visitor!" NARRATIVE IRONY.
On this bigger screen it's MUCH easier to see that Dogtanian's wearing pants. Thank goodness.
Francios the rival kid seems so DEPRESSED that Dogtanian doesn't want to stop and fight him.
I'm glad we have a narrator. I would never have guessed that musketeers were swordsmen. I'd assumed they SHOT PEOPLE WITH MUSKETS. As one does.
So the musketeer's there to see Dogtanian's dad about Sleeper Agent business.
All the noses are so big and round and shiny in this show.
"HEY. He's not my MASTER! I'm his SON!" "That's cool! I'm leaving to Paris! Bye!"
Sword Training with Dogtanian's Dad.
So thrusting against one's lateral defense means swinging the sword left and right?
"Francios has a lump THIS BIG on his forehead. Something must be done." "Yes, he should have a lump THIIIIS big on his head."
Major looming choice about your son's future? Cuppa tea.
*kid throws rock through window* *hits Dogtanian's bed* *CLUNK* That's a hard bed.
ARE YOU ASKING FOR A CHALLENGE?! A SWOOOOORD CHALLENGE?!
Francois leaves early to boobytrap the field.
Dogtanian COUNTERPLANS.
Narrator: "Francios and his BRAVE men..." In tones of "my ass".
Full Armor Dogtanian.
Dogtanian has like 175 skill points in Taunt.
Also, somehow he suspended a suit of armor puppetstyle above a field full of rivals. Stealth = yes.
And Francois' assistants bugger off instantly upon challenge. Maybe if they had SWORDS.
A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS. Real sword battle VS Not Holding Back Father.
...Do you really want him to attack the village kids with a real sword? Use the weapon suited to your enemy. The wooden one was fine for proving the point.
Dogtanian loses, but gets a cut in anyway. Success! You win: A trip out of the tutorial area and enlistment in the musketeers. Way to go, Dogtanian.
He ALSO wins a big feathered hat, a new sword, a belt, a "horse" (alleged), a letter of introduction to the leader of the Musketeers, a pouch of coins, and a cure potion. Nice loot drop.
Francois, of course, stops by to say goodbye, along with all the other kids. Rival banter ensues.
THE FUTURE HELD A DREAM! PROMISE! THE NARRATOR IS FREAKING THE HELL OUT!
And now the novelty Casio keyboard remix of the opening theme, as the ending. (Woof: "Why not, this is the novelty cartoon remix of the story.")
Kamen Rider Den-O 42
And we wrap up the night with ORE SANJOU. I mean, with something we're already watching.
"Noooo! MY BIKE!" Momotaros becomes Misty for a moment.
Hana CLOTHESLINE. 1799 damage points.
Hammock wrestling. Yuuto versus everybody.
"Deneb, you ASSHOLE. I don't WANT people to remember me and get hurt when I vanish!"
...Naomi, why do you have an enormous tranquilizer needle to thrust daggerlike into people?
Climax Jump is rocking the fuck out a little more every time we see it.
Yes, Deneb, your terrible headsock and chocolate scarf outfit is totally inconspicuous.
When in doubt, send in Captain Smooooth. Urataros, however, can tell that this girl has the hots for Yuuto.
"She must be in love. She had no reaction to MY charms." *preenpreen*
"Deneb. You possess me and see her." "Noooo!" "Do it, Fatboy." Well, EVERYONE has lost respect for Deneb now.
Kai, stop emo kidding about and DO SOMETHING.
Oh no. Deneb's trapped in a bowing loop. This could take weeks.
"Why not... go inside, as long as you're here?" "No! Nonono." "Do it, Deneb." "...okay." They're going to make Deneb go on a zoo date. *fascinated* This is horrible and wonderful.
Yes, Deneb, having arguments loudly with yourself in public is entirely how one conducts oneself on a date.
Oh, JAPAN. "You're like my MOM!" should not be a valid way to flirt with Deneb. But it is. And that ... baffles me.
Squid Imagin's back. So they send Urataros to fight it. He's in charge of sea life.
This girl of course has a "live every day like you're going to die tomorrow" philosophy, making her perfect for not minding if Yuuto vanishes from her life! But she's really hot for DENEB-Yuuto. Who cuts and runs, baffled. That was kinda cold.
"It hurts to be the one who forgets, Deneb." ... I dunno about that... does it really? Won't you... not remember?
Urataros: "I'm not the right character to fight this battle!"
...I was sort of hoping to get her reaction to Yuuto TRANSFORMING IN FRONT OF HER.
Damn dodgerolling enemies!
NOGAMI OUT OF FRICKING NOWHERE.
Ooooh. DOUBLE RIDER FINISH!
X-STRIKE! Bookending our shows nicely.
Oops. Timeline... fuckery. I don't know what's happening here. It's pretty though.
The Station Master is not pleased about this abuse of the railway system. BEAMSPAM.
And so she casually forgets.
"All I did was hurt her." ...no, she's pretty well fine. She's in the background spinning around until she falls over. She's okay.
But back at the coffeehouse, Ryou's sister is working on the Sakurai-san Special Coffee blend. Some memories DO linger.
Station Master has new info! And disco lighting!
It's the briefcase from Pulp Fiction! And we're not telling what's in it until next time.
Until right now! And click the thing!
Digimon Xros Wars 01
It is a dark and smokey night in... a world of dark, gas-masked digimon with glowing red eyes. Okay...
Our heroes walk out of the sun! Wearing goggles. Inevitably.
UNIWOLF. WOLFICORN. DRILL WOLFICORN!
Gattai! ...Holy fuck it's Tengen Toppa Digimon Lagann!
SWORD OF FLAMING V! V LASER! MAP ATTACK! FUCK ALL Y'ALL!
...and then a robot swordfought a dinosaur oh it's a dream.
Our hero seems let down too.
...okay, we're gonna have Goggles, Misty, and Brock!
And a pink robobunny. SQUEEEEE PINK ROBOBUNNY.
This show's gonna have a huge cast. Which is cool, because gattaing into flaming bunny swords and robots and stuff is AWESOME. More cast = More combinations.
"Episode one: Taiki goes to another world!" ...What'll happen, I wonder.
And we have... Akari? Whose mom is cooking everything in the trash can. *blink* *baffled*
Taiki plays basketball! He believes in the power of spinning really hard. And in the power of FAKEOUTS.
And then he runs out of energy. *flop*
Apparently our hero, get this, wears himself out helping people! I know! This is NEW TERRITORY.
"Anyway, with this it's CASE CLOSED!" ...no, that's Conan Edogawa's catch phrase.
Taiki can't remember the name of his ULTIMATE KENDO RIVAL, either. In spite of it being, like, Tsurugi, which I think is "sword".
He's BROCK, OKAY? He's BROCK now.
Our hero has a weird psychotic breakdown and starts talking to dragons only he can see and hear. ...maybe he just needs to drop his salt intake on these hot days.
...cars don't NATURALLY go through walls like that.
Will you people stop celphone-photographing everything?
o/~ Last night a dragon saved my life...
"Taiki?" "There's a patch of Noise over here, I gotta go."
Aww. Pink static dragon.
Brief sepia flashback of our hero afraid and alone! He won't leave anyone afraid and alone again! This is so SHONEN.
"AaaaaAAAAAAAAUGH BLINDING LIGHT." "Here, have an iPod."
"Don't take iPods from strangers, Taiki! The Internet taught me you can never click these banner ads and expect them to be real!"
...and the eyecatch lines up the hero digimon of like the last four seasons of Digimon. GET OUTTA HERE YOU GUYS. NEW HERO THIS SEASON.
"Taiki, is your ass talking to you?"
Ooooooh. SHINY robot digi-dragon. *big eyes*
...oh and a floating island. But SHINY.
...and a fucking WOOLY MAMOTH okay everybody OUT of the pastoral field.
"MadLeomon". Prefixes change everything.
Goodness, he's nineties looking.
Hey, it's a red and blue Alteisen digimon. "Ballistamon". Huh.
And a star digimon... and little derpy potatomon!
...Okay, so we have "Shoutmon" as the main hero digi. SHOUTYMON.
I think they're winning by the POWER OF ROCK right now.
OH NO DERPSTORM.
He has returned from the Dark World as RED SHOUTYMON.
MadLeomon with a CHAINSAW ARM.
This is all moving faster than I can type!
Yes, Taiki, run STRAIGHT AT the danger.
Digicross GATTAI. Shoutmon and Ballistamon combine to form GIANTFUCKYOUROBOTMON.
But Taiki keeps having to pump in more and more energy to fuel 'em.
FORM BLAZING SWORD. BISECT CHAINSAW LEOMON.
Big ol' smoking crater.
....and they broke a hole in the fabric of space/time. You little goggled bastards, STOP DOING THAT.
Oh, here's the enemies talking in shadow. They're like the bad guys from Trigun.
...Shoutymon, please stop grabbing Taiki's ass and proclaiming your undying love for him.
"Help me become KING of the Digital World!" "What's a Digital World?"
And then we pan back to reveal like THREE LAYERS of people standing on cliffs watching other people standing on cliffs watching other people... *crack up*
So Shoutymon's official power literally is the ability to ROCK THE FUCK OUT and melt your face off.
So... yeaaaaaah. For a first episode... WOW. This moved like HELL. I'm going to download these and stockpile them for later, when the season's done.
Dogtanian 01
And now back to reasonably sedate and slightly blurry children's programming from the eighties!
So this is based on The Three Musketeers, loosely. So expect a lot of swordplay, but do not expect Dogtanian to sleep with every single woman in France, as Dumas wrote. Because kids in 1981.
Also, this theme song is catchy and fun? But it goes on for like three solid minutes.
"The year was 1625 and the village was heavily shaded..."
Remember, cheating in a (wooden) swordfight is okay if you use the stuff your OPPONENT was cheating with.
Cam Clarke's voice was -really- nasal and high back then.
A musketeer from Paris!
"I'm here to see the nobleist man in all the village." Rival Kid: "Woo, my dad's got a visitor!" NARRATIVE IRONY.
On this bigger screen it's MUCH easier to see that Dogtanian's wearing pants. Thank goodness.
Francios the rival kid seems so DEPRESSED that Dogtanian doesn't want to stop and fight him.
I'm glad we have a narrator. I would never have guessed that musketeers were swordsmen. I'd assumed they SHOT PEOPLE WITH MUSKETS. As one does.
So the musketeer's there to see Dogtanian's dad about Sleeper Agent business.
All the noses are so big and round and shiny in this show.
"HEY. He's not my MASTER! I'm his SON!" "That's cool! I'm leaving to Paris! Bye!"
Sword Training with Dogtanian's Dad.
So thrusting against one's lateral defense means swinging the sword left and right?
"Francios has a lump THIS BIG on his forehead. Something must be done." "Yes, he should have a lump THIIIIS big on his head."
Major looming choice about your son's future? Cuppa tea.
*kid throws rock through window* *hits Dogtanian's bed* *CLUNK* That's a hard bed.
ARE YOU ASKING FOR A CHALLENGE?! A SWOOOOORD CHALLENGE?!
Francois leaves early to boobytrap the field.
Dogtanian COUNTERPLANS.
Narrator: "Francios and his BRAVE men..." In tones of "my ass".
Full Armor Dogtanian.
Dogtanian has like 175 skill points in Taunt.
Also, somehow he suspended a suit of armor puppetstyle above a field full of rivals. Stealth = yes.
And Francois' assistants bugger off instantly upon challenge. Maybe if they had SWORDS.
A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS. Real sword battle VS Not Holding Back Father.
...Do you really want him to attack the village kids with a real sword? Use the weapon suited to your enemy. The wooden one was fine for proving the point.
Dogtanian loses, but gets a cut in anyway. Success! You win: A trip out of the tutorial area and enlistment in the musketeers. Way to go, Dogtanian.
He ALSO wins a big feathered hat, a new sword, a belt, a "horse" (alleged), a letter of introduction to the leader of the Musketeers, a pouch of coins, and a cure potion. Nice loot drop.
Francois, of course, stops by to say goodbye, along with all the other kids. Rival banter ensues.
THE FUTURE HELD A DREAM! PROMISE! THE NARRATOR IS FREAKING THE HELL OUT!
And now the novelty Casio keyboard remix of the opening theme, as the ending. (Woof: "Why not, this is the novelty cartoon remix of the story.")
Kamen Rider Den-O 42
And we wrap up the night with ORE SANJOU. I mean, with something we're already watching.
"Noooo! MY BIKE!" Momotaros becomes Misty for a moment.
Hana CLOTHESLINE. 1799 damage points.
Hammock wrestling. Yuuto versus everybody.
"Deneb, you ASSHOLE. I don't WANT people to remember me and get hurt when I vanish!"
...Naomi, why do you have an enormous tranquilizer needle to thrust daggerlike into people?
Climax Jump is rocking the fuck out a little more every time we see it.
Yes, Deneb, your terrible headsock and chocolate scarf outfit is totally inconspicuous.
When in doubt, send in Captain Smooooth. Urataros, however, can tell that this girl has the hots for Yuuto.
"She must be in love. She had no reaction to MY charms." *preenpreen*
"Deneb. You possess me and see her." "Noooo!" "Do it, Fatboy." Well, EVERYONE has lost respect for Deneb now.
Kai, stop emo kidding about and DO SOMETHING.
Oh no. Deneb's trapped in a bowing loop. This could take weeks.
"Why not... go inside, as long as you're here?" "No! Nonono." "Do it, Deneb." "...okay." They're going to make Deneb go on a zoo date. *fascinated* This is horrible and wonderful.
Yes, Deneb, having arguments loudly with yourself in public is entirely how one conducts oneself on a date.
Oh, JAPAN. "You're like my MOM!" should not be a valid way to flirt with Deneb. But it is. And that ... baffles me.
Squid Imagin's back. So they send Urataros to fight it. He's in charge of sea life.
This girl of course has a "live every day like you're going to die tomorrow" philosophy, making her perfect for not minding if Yuuto vanishes from her life! But she's really hot for DENEB-Yuuto. Who cuts and runs, baffled. That was kinda cold.
"It hurts to be the one who forgets, Deneb." ... I dunno about that... does it really? Won't you... not remember?
Urataros: "I'm not the right character to fight this battle!"
...I was sort of hoping to get her reaction to Yuuto TRANSFORMING IN FRONT OF HER.
Damn dodgerolling enemies!
NOGAMI OUT OF FRICKING NOWHERE.
Ooooh. DOUBLE RIDER FINISH!
X-STRIKE! Bookending our shows nicely.
Oops. Timeline... fuckery. I don't know what's happening here. It's pretty though.
The Station Master is not pleased about this abuse of the railway system. BEAMSPAM.
And so she casually forgets.
"All I did was hurt her." ...no, she's pretty well fine. She's in the background spinning around until she falls over. She's okay.
But back at the coffeehouse, Ryou's sister is working on the Sakurai-san Special Coffee blend. Some memories DO linger.
Station Master has new info! And disco lighting!
It's the briefcase from Pulp Fiction! And we're not telling what's in it until next time.
